The city of Cambridge, MA has been using STV to elect its city council and school committee since 1941. Here are some links to interesting information about the 2007 election and historical information about every election going back to 1941. For instance, the 1941 city council election had more than 80 candidates and took 77 rounds of counting! All done by hand of course.

Voting matters Issue 24 is now online (note the new domain name).

In conjunction with my paper (with David Hill) on some technical details of the Droop quota, Henry Droop's seminal paper on his eponymous quota has been published as part of this issue. Droop's paper has not been widely available in the public domain, as far as I know. Now it is, thanks in large part to the yeoman efforts of Vm editor Brian Wichmann.

It's worth a read.

OpenSTV has a fantastic new web page thanks to the hard work of Renee and Jesse at IDC WebDev. We hope that the new page will be a valuable source of information about STV and also hope to blog about STV events around the world. Please be patient as we add content to the website and check back regularly for more information.

The June issue of Linux Journal magazine has included a brief writeup on OpenSTV in its New Products section. You need a subscription to view the magazine online, but here is the text of the article:

OpenSTV

On May 3, 2007, Scotland used STV for the first time, where it was used for their local government elections. The City of Glasgow has published all the ballots from its STV elections and you can download the ballots here.